We love services like GitHub, Codepen, and Glitch, for providing tools to share, duplicate, and remix other people’s projects. What if instead of being part of a one-off service, these tools were a core feature of the Web platform?

A few new updates to Beaker. You can now give DNS sites a shortname. You can use the new dathttpd web server to host your sites from the cloud, and take advantage of this new feature. (Read the spec here.)

A big part of this release was about improving the UX. We’re thinking very specifically about how we want Beaker, as a product, to work. We took inspiration from a lot of different products, including CodePen, GitHub, and even iTunes.

The other major half of this release was making fixes to the Dat protocol. We’ve improved our debugging techniques, and found some key issues that we’ve patched.